Australia has a compelling story to tell as an independent and incredibly successful country. Yet its current flag doesn’t reflect this. The two days sit in contrast to each other. One is uniquely ...

Nationals backbencher Pat Conaghan has proposed an amendment to the flags act to prohibit the burning or desecration of the ...

On this day, 124 years ago, the Australian flag was flown for the first time. It flew over the dome of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne — the seat of the fledgling Australian federal government — ...

Two MPs have introduced bills seeking to criminalise burning the National Flag after a protester set one alight at an ...

Burning the Australian flag would be made illegal under a fresh parliamentary push to prevent the desecration of our national ...

Premier David Crisafulli has said he would support a federal ban on the burning of the flag, after an incident at an Invasion Day event on Australia Day, where a protester set fire to an Australian ...

A miserable assortment of malcontents did their best to wreck it. This year I watched the “invasion day” drama unfold with friends holidaying from Europe who could not understand how the torching of ...

An NQ politician and former soldier’s years-long crusade to criminalise flag burning has gained fresh momentum after a protester set fire to the Australian flag in Brisbane. Premier David Crisafulli ...